Singapore school uses iPads in the classroom

A school in Singapore has introduced iPads to the classroom to change the
teaching and learning environment.

5:50PM GMT 18 Jan 2011

Nanyang Girls High School has spent just under £65,000 to buy 150 iPads for students and teachers in a pilot project. Pupils connect to the Internet using the tablet, and download books and course material.

They can take notes on the iPad, and use worksheets.

Seah Hui Yong, dean of curriculum at the school, said the iPad was chosen because it complemented a new method of teaching under which students are given more freedom to learn themselves, instead of relying solely on the teacher in traditional classrooms.